Instant connection to a wired network over USBUSB3.0 provides up to 5 Gbps transfer rate, which is 10x faster than USB2.0 Backwards compatible with USB3.0, 2.0, and 1.1 hosts and devices LED activity indicator The USB3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter gives you the ability to add a Gigabit Ethernet port to your laptop or MacBook® though a single USB3.0 Type-A port, supporting 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and is fully compatible with IEEE 802.3/az/u/ab/x standards. This ethernet adapter provides full gigabit bandwidth and offers backward compatibility with USB2.0. It also supports features such as IPv4/IPv6/TCP/UDP packet Checksum Offload Engine (COE) and TCP Large Send Offload to reduce the load on your CPU. Jumbo Frames, full-duplex operation, VLAN tagging and 2 VLAN ID filtering are also supported, making this an ideal replacement LAN adapter or laptop accessory in areas without Wi-Fi® or if you just want to increase your Internet speed. Ports & interfaces USB version 3.2 Gen 1